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Latest comment: 6 years ago by Geographyinitiative in topic 会意字
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会意字[edit]

I think this character looks like an phono semantic compound and ideographic compound combo. 殄 means destroy and 食 means eat. Sounds like a taotie (or 'taotei') to me. Therefore, ideographic compound. Shuowen says 殄 means 盡; not sure how that would affect my argument. I couldn't find any source that agreed with my assessment.--Geographyinitiative (talk) 11:22, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Reply